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LAWRENCE -- Catherine L. Preston, associate professor of theatre and film, has won this year's Vice Chancellor's Book Subvention Award at the University of Kansas. The KU award provides support for a book of humanistic research accepted by a refereed press and written by a KU faculty member.
Robert Barnhill, president of the KU Center for Research and vice chancellor for research and public service, and Associate Vice Chancellor James Roberts created the award, which first was awarded in 1999. Preston's award will help cover the costs of obtaining permission to reproduce the necessary photographs.
The Smithsonian Institution Press has accepted for publication Preston's manuscript, "In Retrospect: The FSA Photographs and American Visual Memory," a cultural history of the Farm Security Administration Office of War Information Photograph Collection.
Preston describes the book as "a history of the nation's changing visual relationship to a key moment in its past, the Great Depression." To trace this relationship, she examines the photographs as they appeared in books, exhibitions, magazines, documentary films and post cards. Her study differs from previous publications in that she not only investigates the national memories constructed through the photographs but also considers how these memories serve the present national identity.
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